National socialist propaganda, over the course of the entire Third Reich Germania, was a matter of glorifying and honouring the First World War, attributing blame for the German defeat on ‘defeatists’, ‘pacifists’ and ‘Untermenschen’. The glorious leader himself, the Führer, winner of the Iron Cross, First Class, was ever portrayed as a war hero, a staunch believer of the ‘stab in the back’ and an advocate of aggressive expansion through warfare. However, it is surprising perhaps to learn that before the beginning of the First World War, in the year of 1913, Adolf Hitler was arrested for dodging the Austrian military draft.